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The first service pack for 2005 Express was released in December 2006. Visual Studio 2005 Express, the first version of the Express edition, was released in October 2005. The last version of the Express edition is the desktop-only 2017.Ģ005–2010: Language-centric editions History In 2013, Microsoft began supplanting Visual Studio Express with the more feature-rich community edition of Visual Studio, which is available free of charge with a different license that disallow some scenarios in enterprise settings. Express editions started with Visual Studio 2005. They are function-limited version of the non-free Visual Studio and require mandatory registration. Microsoft Visual Studio Express is a set of integrated development environments (IDEs) that Microsoft developed and released free of charge. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.
